Unit Objectives:
1. Understanding irony and how authors use Irony as a literary device in their works.
2. Understand the mechanics behind fiction writing and how Edgar Allan Poe, Rod Serling, and Ray Bradbury used the genre to express man's inability to cope with the unknown.
3. Write using irony and improve your writing through tone, imagery and symbolism.
Unit Standards:
Common Core Standards:
7-1.5: Author's Craft
7-2.4: Create responses to video, art, etc.
7.W.1: Write to support a thesis
7.W.3a: Engage and orient the reader by providing context to the reading.